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Thursday, December 18, 2014

April 2013: Tour of Honor Saddlesore 1,000 Extreme

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With Nikki's prompting, I took a wander around Kansas in April of 2013 and seemed to have picked up all 7 Tour of Honor sites, pending ...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Sharp Aquos Crystal First Impressions

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As part of the Sprint Product Ambassador team, I have the opportunity to try out new phones from time to time and blog about them.  Usually ...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

The Only Lighthouse in Kansas

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Kansas has a lighthouse?  In the middle of flyover country?  Ah yup!  Just a few miles North of us, where I-635 crosses the Missouri River, ...
Friday, November 21, 2014

$5 Cell Phone. For life.

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Sprint just dropped a "Go Big or Go Home" offer - three rewards for existing customers including unlimited voice minutes on your c...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Motorola Buds Bluetooth Headset Review

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As a Sprint Product Ambassador, I received a set of high end Bluetooth headphones, the Motorola Buds, to try out.  Juvenile drug reference...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

Pack 3094 Cub Scouting

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While I've been busy starting a flame war on Facebook, my dear wife has been updating our Cub Scout Pack page making it more logical, be...

How to lose weight

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Someone was asking for gym and personal trainer advice to drop the 100 pounds she had gained over the past year.  (!!).  I posted the follow...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Rating Retail Stores

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Retail stores are the key touchpoint for  customers.  As the holiday season comes up, customers are going to be looking for your store.  But...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

The Management Game

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Recently, I was invited to play the Management Game, imported from our new corporate owners, Softbank.  What is the Management game?  In 1...
Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Scouting for Scouts

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Last week was filled with public speaking engagements. I was scheduled to speak at 3 school night for scouting events. This is where we get ...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

Giving back - Boy Scouts and Social Media

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All these years of working in Social Media, I've been trying to learn more about the best practices, best way to run a social site,  how...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Plantronics BT-300M and the Mac!

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The work laptop has been giving me fits today, so on a whim I thought I'd move the BT-300M bluetooth dongle over to my vintage 2006 Mac ...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

A personal note on SEO

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A personal note on search engine optimization of your web pages. I've spent quite a few hours making sure that our Cub Scout Pack is wel...

Today? Search challenges and Paying Attention

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Today I paid attention at work.  Searched for a few things.  And found more SEO problems than I really wanted to. Pages with no machine read...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

What have I been doing? New Plans from Sprint!

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Been off the blog all summer - heads down with Scouting and Sprint!  We've been quietly developing what I feel are some of the most outs...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Plantronics Voyager Legend Blue Light Flashes 3 times - and it's Dead!

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If you have one of the Plantronics Voyager Legend bluetooth and UC headset, you know how excellent it can be.  And more than likely, you...
Tuesday, April 08, 2014

What I was reading this morning . . . Kanban

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We were using this back in the 90’s to build airplanes; it’s now been pushed into the realm of Agile software development.  Kanban means lit...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Noise Graffiti

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Noise Graffiti , a set on Flickr. No one knows much about the 'Noise' graffiti tag; or at least they're not talking much about i...

Sennheiser HD202 Headphone Review

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Originally submitted at bswusa.com Yes, it's BSW's Money Saving 5-Pack Headphone Deal! For over 10 years, BSW has made this exc...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Why Telecoms Don't Fight the NSA

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"  In February 2001, Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio says  he was approached by NSA agents  about establishing direct access to Qwest's ca...
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20 year veteran of the UNIX wars; on the internet before Tim Berners Lee invented HTTP and the world wide web. Developing websites before you were were born. Now I'm in your phone collecting your data.
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